Tell a Sad Story Installation Image

Through critique and analysis, researchers have learned that
anti-LGBT hate crime perpetrators are predominantly ordinary young men who do
not have a criminal background and are often middle-class and white. Over and
over, it is these ordinary young men that play out their ideas of masculinity
to police what they perceive to be gender appropriateness and normalcy. In this
paradigm, the victims are a stand in for the group, the perpetrators all share
similar traits and any simple object can be transformed into a weapon. All
these interchangeable parts point to a larger system of violence, and a
fragility bubbling just under the surface of our social structure.

Tell a Sad Story is a photographic and sculptural installation,
which is based on a specific hate crime case, in which the weapon used is a
beer bottle. The identities of the perpetrators and the victim are purposely
left unknown as I ask viewers to question how images are read. The multiple
bottles insinuate the duration, physical closeness and struggle of this act.

Daniel Doyle,

2010, C-print, 16x24 Inches

​Julio Rivera

​2010, C-print, 16x24 Inches

Eric Brown

​2010, C-print, 16x24 Inches

Beer Bottle (1 of 8)

2010-2011, Stoneware ceramic, 3x4x9”

Beer Bottle (2 of 8)

2010-2011, Stoneware ceramic, 3x4x9”

Beer Bottle (1 of 8)

2010-2011, Stoneware ceramic, 3x4x9”

Beer Bottle (3 of 8)

2010-2011, Stoneware ceramic, 3x4x9”

Beer Bottle (4 of 8)

2010-2011, Stoneware ceramic, 3x4x9”

Beer Bottle (5 of 8)

2010-2011, Stoneware ceramic, 3x4x9”

Beer Bottle (7 of 8)

2010-2011, Stoneware ceramic, 3x4x9”

Beer Bottle (8 of 8)

2010-2011, Stoneware ceramic, 3x4x9”

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Tell a Sad Story Installation Image

Through critique and analysis, researchers have learned that
anti-LGBT hate crime perpetrators are predominantly ordinary young men who do
not have a criminal background and are often middle-class and white. Over and
over, it is these ordinary young men that play out their ideas of masculinity
to police what they perceive to be gender appropriateness and normalcy. In this
paradigm, the victims are a stand in for the group, the perpetrators all share
similar traits and any simple object can be transformed into a weapon. All
these interchangeable parts point to a larger system of violence, and a
fragility bubbling just under the surface of our social structure.

Tell a Sad Story is a photographic and sculptural installation,
which is based on a specific hate crime case, in which the weapon used is a
beer bottle. The identities of the perpetrators and the victim are purposely
left unknown as I ask viewers to question how images are read. The multiple
bottles insinuate the duration, physical closeness and struggle of this act.